The Get Noticed! Theme uses a font for the Share Bar icons (“gntsocial”). You can override the default font using some custom CSS. For example, let’s say you wanted to use the FontAwesome.io icon set instead. Just a heads up,

As of Get Noticed 1.5.0, you can add custom font stacks into the Theme Customizer. Here are some simple instructions for adding Google Fonts to your site. Go to https://www.google.com/fonts, and pick a few fonts you like. Limit your selection

Get Noticed is the theme that Michael Hyatt uses on his WordPress site. About 3 months ago the theme became available for purchase. Setting up the Get Noticed theme for the first time can be a bit tricky. There are

W3 Total Cache is my favorite WordPress Caching Plugin. The only downside is that it has a ton of settings! Here are the common settings I use on most of my sites. From the WordPress admin area, go to the Performance tab.

If you’re customizing a WordPress Theme, a child themes is critical to ensure your site and theme stay up to date. Unfortunately, not all themes are developed with child themes in mind. The most common things I tend to change

Like most ìmodernî content management systems, WordPress relies on a MySQL Database to store content. In most cases, this database is rather small. Only text like Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types, and general settings are stored in this database. Images and other files are stored on the server by default. As sites grow, so does the content and, consequently, so does the number of queries to the database. MySQL is a very resilient system, but like most things, there is a point when it canít get any bigger, faster, or safer.

I’m happy to announce I’ll be speaking at the 2013 WordCamp Milwaukee! My†presentation†is titled “Why is my site so freakin’ slow?!” We’re going to talk about simple ways to speed up your WordPress site. I plan on covering everything from